Psalm 8- what is man, lost man, that thou shouldst be so mindful of him?- led me toPsalm 144- what is this humus that you know it?Here is the answer - in a word, God loves us as God loves God. (HT Mike Higton)I am working my way for a second time through the whole Psalter - both ends towards the middle. To follow the thread begin here and come forward in time. (Other earlier notes on structure are here and here.)Psalms 40 and 90 by my soundex measure - sharing three consecutive consonants - have some relationship to 144 (I really need to refine the algorithm - some of the connections are quite comical).In actual same-word connections, the psalms are both prayers invoking .אֲדֹנָי Adonai is less than common in the Psalms. Both speak of pride (a unique reading - hapax - in both psalms) and loving kindness חַסְדֶּךָ and both use other words common in the psalms.Psalm 40Psalm 90to the proudאֶל רְהָבִיםtheir pride is but labor and troubleוְרָהְבָּם establishing my stepsכּוֹנֵןestablish the work of our handsכּוֹנְנָהmy iniquities עֲו‍ֹנֹתַיour iniquitiesעֲו‍ֹנֹתֵינוּ let them be gladוְיִשְׂמְחוּand we will be gladשַׂמְּחֵנוּPsalm 40For the leader of David A Psalmwait I wait יְהוָהand he bent to meand he heard my cryhe brought me up from a pit of tumultfrom clinging muckand set my feet on a rockestablishing my stepsand he gave in my mouth a new songpraise to our Godmany will see and will fearand will trust in יְהוָהhappy the man who makes יְהוָה his trustand does not turn to the proudfalling away to a liemany things you have doneyou יְהוָה my Godyour wonders and your plans for usthere is nothing to compare to youI will make them known and I will speakthey are numerous to countsacrifice and offering you did not desireears you have dug for meburnt offering and sin offering not did you desirethen I said Here I comein the roll of the writing is inscribed of meto do your will my God I delightedand your law in the midst of my inward partsI have published righteousnessin the great congregationhere my lips I did not restrainיְהוָה you knowyour righteousness I did not hide within my heartyour faithfulness and your salvation I have spokenI have not concealed your loving kindness and your truthin the great congregationyou יְהוָה will not restrict your tender mercies from meyour loving kindness and your truth continually preserve mefor evils surrounded me without numbermy iniquities they held me and I had no power to seenumerous as the hairs of my headso my heart abandons mebe pleased יְהוָה to deliver meיְהוָה hurry to help melet them be ashamed and disconcerted togetherfor seeking my life to destroy itlet them be driven back and be humiliatedthat desire my hurtlet them be desolate with consequence in their shamethose saying to me, hah! hah!let all those seeking you singand be glad in youand let those loving your salvation say continuallygreat is יְהוָהbut poor am I and needyO Lord hurry to me my help delivering meyou my God will not delayPsalm 90A prayer of Moses the man of GodLord, you have become our habitation from age to agebefore the mountains were bornor earth and the world writhedeven from everlasting to everlasting you are Godyou turn a human to dust and you sayTurn children of humusfor a thousand years in your eyes is like a recent dayfor it is past and a watch in the nightyou flood them, sleep they becomein the morning like grass they grow upin the morning it flourishes and grows upin the evening it is cut down and withersfor we are consumed in your angerand in your wrath we are troubledyou put our iniquities in front of youour secret in the light of your facefor all our days turn away from your furywe complete our years as a groandays of our years, in them seventy yearsand if in strength eighty yearsbut their pride is labor and trouble for it is cut off soonand we flutter awayWho knows the power of your angerand for your fear your furyTo number our days so teachand we will come to a heart of wisdomTurn יְהוָה, how long.

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